The University of Oslo organizes the conference "Culture, Civilization and the World – the Semantics of Globalization" from Januar 25-26. EWC's Research Coordinator Dr. Claudia Lenz will be giving a lecture on: "Citizenship – an ambigram in the context of national and global interpretations".

On December 10, 2009, the 61st anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted resolution A/RES/64/82 to mark the end of the International Year of Human Rights Learning.

Amnesty International is seeking a Project Coordinator to coordinate an international human rights education initiative, which is aimed at raising awareness, informing debate and enabling action in order to tackle human rights abuses that drive and deepen poverty. Deadline is on January 18, 2010.

The Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) is announcing an eight month National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) Fellowship. The aim of the fellowship is to expand the understanding of the role NHRIs play in promoting and protecting human rights, to support research, and to help facilitate dialogue between NHRI scholars and practitioners.

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) released the results of its survey of over 23,000 individuals from ethnic minority and immigrant groups about their experiences of discrimination, racist crime, and policing in the EU. The results reveal shocking evidence about the discrimination faced by minorities in everyday life.